Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past

by David Beer and Ben Jacobsen

Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as 'memories' and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book critically explores the process behind this new form of memory making. In asking how social media are beginning to change the way we remember, it will be essential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529218152
• ISBN13: 9781529218152
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"